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UK government announces that porn websites will have to verify UK users are aged 18+ by April 2018; users may be asked to verify with credit card details — UK gov't brings in online porn watchdog to police site operators and force compliance. — The wobbly, squabbling, minority Tory government …
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Sources: Google's offering some science labs and AI experts early cloud access to its quantum computers, following IBM's similar effort to spur app development — Company offers early access to its machines over the internet — IBM began quantum computing cloud service earlier this year
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Microsoft is launching a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10 — Microsoft is bringing one of its LinkedIn goals to life today with the launch of a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10. The software giant finalized its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn more than six months ago …
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| LA Galloway / Leigh-Anne Galloway: |
Myspace's account recovery form lets anyone who knows a user's email, full name, birthday, username gain access; company warned in April but has done nothing — In April this year whilst roaming the plains of the wild world web, I stumbled across an old Myspace account of mine.
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Samsung Pay adds PayPal as a payment method while PayPal's Braintree merchants can now add Samsung Pay as a checkout option in US — Samsung Pay will soon accept PayPal as a payment method in addition to bank accounts, credit cards, and gift cards. It's a tiny update that could be useful … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK startup WaveOptics raises $16M Series B for its waveguide-based optics for AR devices — WaveOptics, a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics — technology based on hologram physics and photonic crystals — for augmented reality hardware, has raised $16 million (£12 million) …
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| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
HTC unveils HTC Alexa app for HTC U11 in the US to bring hands-free Amazon Alexa support; the app also allows users to listen to Amazon Music and Audible books — Throughout the history of HTC, it has been known to be the first to bring various technologies and features to the smartphone world.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
New line of IBM Z mainframes offer pervasive, full-time encryption to hinder data breaches — Big Blue announced that its latest IBM Z mainframe computer will be able to encrypt all of the data in an enterprise all of the time, bringing encryption to everything from cloud services to databases.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Atari reveals first renderings of Ataribox with SD card support, a HDMI port, and 4 USB ports, says console will run classic games alongside “current content” — Atari started teasing its Ataribox at E3 this year, promising a “brand new Atari product.”| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
In provisional ruling, judge denies US Labor Department's request for full details on Google employees that it sought as part of an equal pay investigation — The Labor Department will not get access to the full details it has requested on 21,000 Google employees as part of its investigation of equal pay …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal: |
Leap Motion raises $50M Series C for its hand-tracking computer interface tech, with a16z, Founders Fund, other investors returning — Company believes hand gestures will boost virtual reality devices — Leap Motion Inc. wants to move computing beyond taps on a touchscreen and clicks on a mouse.
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| Dylan Martin / BostInno: |
Metal 3D printing startup Desktop Metal raises $115M Series D with New Enterprise Associates, GV, GE Ventures among investors — Boston has a new unicorn. — Desktop Metal, a metal 3D printing startup led by A123 Systems founder Ric Fulop, announced on Monday that it has raised …
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Business Wire, Fortune, and The Voice of 3D Printing
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The real problem in US is near total lack of ISP competition; FCC's net neutrality plans only enable ISPs to extract more profits with no incentives to reinvest — Why does this keep happening? — FCC chairman Ajit Pai is fond of saying that “the internet was not broken in 2015” … Sponsor Posts
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